The current standard of care and only potential curative therapy for colorectal liver metastases is liver resection of the metastatic lesions. Surgical resection provides long term survival in patients with colorectal carcinoma (CRC) liver metastases. In a report of 1001 patients with metastatic colorectal cancer from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in NY, USA, surgical resection of liver metastases resulted in 3- and 5-year survival rates of 37% and 22%, respectively. Advances in pre- and intra-operative imaging and chemotherapy during recent years have increased overall survival up to 60% at 5 years after liver resection. However, 80-90% of liver metastases are unresectable at the time of diagnosis usually due to tumor location, multifocality, inadequate functional hepatic reserve or the patient's overall condition. For those patients, harboring unresectable liver metastases, alternative treatment approaches include neoadjuvant chemotherapy, local ablation therapy and stereotactic radiation therapy.